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The Times from Munster, Indiana • 87

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Munster, Indiana
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College ZD Corner Army -Offers. Engineer, Executive, Jobs to Graduates of Colleges Two students from Griffith and another from Highland are in the student body at William Woods College, Fulton, Mo. They are Elaine Joan Knerr, davighter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A.

Knerr, 402 N. Broad Griffith, and Alyce Lynne Rupp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Rupp, 3134 Garfield, Highland, both juniors, and Patricia Mae Tennant, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Roger Tennant, 331 Rensselaer, Griffith, a senior. ing basic research in electron theory of transition metals. Through the work of such civilian employes in laboratory and arsenal is the Army supplied with the weapons needed for the protection of the American people, who demand the best in defense, as they do in automobiles and TV sets. WASHINGTON This year the army-plans to hire about a thousand young college graduates whose potential appears high for advancement to the top executive, scientific and professional positions.

Half that number will be engineers. The possibility of attaining this goal in today's highly competitive personnel market received a boost this year with a simplified examination procedure and with the upping of starting salaries which can be offered under civil service regulations to engineers MARGARET A BKASKI daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brasel, 1118 Drackert St, Hammond, has entered the Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford, Conn. Miss Brasel is working on her master's degree at the school's Institute for Church Social Service.

LARRY kl, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Grodzirki, 4918 Olcott East Chicago, has returned to Wabash College, Craw- IU Names Lake County Scholars on Honor, List he would try from as many as 30, each In a different field. This simplified examination procedure for college-caliber young men and women reflects a shift in emphasis away from that of merely filling today's needs towards that of bringing into federal service qualified, career-minded young people who can grow into the managers, scientists and professional leaders of tomorrow. APPLICATIONS for taking the' FSEE may now be made at any time at the regional office of the Civil Service Commission, rather than during a limited filing period as in the past.

The exams are given' several times a year, at intervals not longer than three months. Ii certain highly specialized and professional fields, such as engineering, separate tests are still given. Practical recognition of the work high in caliber and in national significance and public service which civilian employes of the Army are doing has come during the past four years with the Rockefeller Public. Service Awards. Army employes have always been among the recipients.

Dr. Richard J. Weiss, 32, of the Ordnance Materials Research Office at Watertown, as a result -of winning 'one of the awards this year, will spend 10 months in various European laboratories do- Elvis Sent Them Even In Grade School and scientists. An engineer with a bachelor's 'degree starts at a year; with a master's degree, with a doctor's degree, $6,115. If certain work experience qualifications are met, the salary is higher.

Holders of non-technical degrees start at $3,670 a year, or at with a higher degree. "TOP OF the heap" Army civilian jobs include about 60 which pay between $10,000 and $15,000. The 400,000 American citizens who preserve the continuity of the Army's work throughout the world were, for the most part, selected for merit and fitness on. the basis of competitive examinations. The new Federal Service Entrance Examination FSEE) is open to all college seniors and graduates, or to er with equivalent practical experience.

It is a general examination, designed to recruit people with all-around ability and promise and not necessarily requiring subject-matter preparation. Anyone passing the FSEE can be considered for a wide variety of jobs on the basis of the kind of aptitudes and training he possesses as determined by the exam. In the past, a college graduate had to select which exam or exams Will Send Youth To Winler Course In Agriculture A $200 scholarship for the University of Illinois Winter Short Course in Agriculture is being offered by Chicago Federal Savings and Loan it was announced by Benjamin Keach, president. The award is to cover tuition fees and living expenses during the term of the course at Urbana, 111., from Nov. 26 to Jan.

17. The winner also has the option of choosing another school where such a course is offered, Keach said. Competition is open to any man or woman at least 18 years of age who has farm experience. Purpose of the short course is to show the latest technological and economic developments in agriculture. Applicants will be judged on their farm responsibilities and what they expect to gain from the short course program as well as their educational records.

No high school diploma is required. Applications must be completed by Oct. 6 and may be obtained by writing Chicago Federal 100 N. State Chicago, 111. fordville, where he Is senior.

He is a counselor at Scott House, a men's residence hall. Grodzicki is majoring in economics. This summer the East Chicago student attended the Marine Corps Platoon Leader Class at Qusntico, for 12 weeks. When he graduates next June he will be commissioned a second lieutenant In the Marines. Grodr.uk I Is a lcttermnn on the Wabash football team.

Hutchlns. Bonnie J. MeQullkln. Rimgaudas Nrmickas, Barbara A. Paulauski, Nadine Rasfta.

Hubert K. Reese, Paul Hegenovlch Jr. and Edward M. Rocaka. Griffith Gail E.

William E. Ryckman Jr. and Mary J. Simons. HAMMOND Alice M.

Aldrin, Thomas H. Alt. Patricia K. Anderson, Sue Uartos. Frederick K.

Bauer, Edwin K. Burkhsrdt, Thomas E. Carroll, Cooper, Joseph P. Dixon, Eugene S. loggers, Vera P.

Frocllch. Aldora Grar, Robert Harris, Roger K. Hinesley, John Jakuhiec, Stanley T. Ka-minskl, Keith R. Kooken, Mary A.

Kulzncr, Carol A. Ueberiim. Sandra Ixive, Janice M. Miller, Sandra M. Murray, Alice K.

Peters, Nancy M. Singleton, James T. Sprengelnjeyer, Patricia L. Urban, Paula It. Victors, Dorothy J.

Wargo. Dorothy M. Watson and Myrna J. Yaluwitz. Highland John G.

Daerr, Marjorie A. Mclavcn and Judith C. Zimmerman. Hnbart Wanda J. Carrtwell, Gayle A.

Humlnsky, Erica Kuh-rasch, Barbara A. Overdeck and Robert L. Shone. Lowell Shirley M. Karlson.

Ml ASTER David J. Allen, Alan VV. Bcigstedt. Meta D. Freeman, Michael R.

Hriso, Mrs. Phyllis J. Hriso and Joanne Varady, Whiting John R. Ban, Mnrlan Barda. Thomas Dulack, Margaret B.

Eberly, Andrew J. Hanis, John S. Kolina, Clarke C. Miller, Ronald J. Rosin, William J.

Stu-der. Barabara J. True, Nadine J. Winkclried and Joann E. Zuklin.

University Offers Courses URBANA-CHAMPA1GN, III. A total of 2,056 courses are being offered at the University of Illinois here for the fall semester. To keep classes small, many have mere than one section, with the J20 scheduled sections of freshman rhetoric (English) topping the list. All told. 5.4K4 class sections are scheduled.

More will be added if needed. All grades of finest qualify coal for any type of coal burning systems. Fill that bin now! Coal burning days art around the corner. 2-0367 Sheffield Goal and Supply Co. Sheffield Avenwe SUM HAMMONDhbhb To Start ROTC Cadet Flight Training URBANA CHAMPAIGN, 111.

The University of Illinois is one of 38 schools at which flight training for senior Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets will start this year. Program details are being awaited by the university's Institute of Aviation which will carry out the flight training under contract with the Air Force. In 10 years it has given flight instruction to 2,600 persons without an injury. Air Force plans call for 35 hours training in light aircraft and 35 hours ground instruction, qualifying cadets for private pilot licenses. Flight training will be by the university's instructors under Civil Aeronautics Authority supervision.

The University of Illinois has a fleet of 40 aircraft used for charter service, research, and flight training, and its own airport, larger in arta than Midway in Chicago, used for university and public service. Director Leslie A. Bryan of -the institute is a nationally recognized leader in aviation education, and a reserve colonel in the Air Force. Recent congressional action, authorized all three services to provide flight training in the ROTC. Illinois has ROTC units for all services, but so far yio flight plans for Army or Navy.

Under a grant from the Link Foundation, the university's Aviation Institute recently published for the benefit of other InstiUitions a series of bulletins detailing Its flight instruction, airport operation, and various other activities. School lo Add Space for Metals Research The second step in a $5 million expansion program will be taken this fall by Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology. Construction will begin in November on a $575,000 addition to the Metals Research Building, it was announced by William M. Cousins Jr. ARF assistant director.

Rapid expansion in metals research has necesitated construction of the four-story addition at 3350 S. Federal St. on the Illinois Tech campus. The volume of metals research at Armour is at an all-time high," Cousins said, "and double the amount of the presently available space is needed to carry out the projects planned by the metals department." THE FIRST building in the Foundation's $5 million expansion program a $1,250,000 Physics and Electrical Engineering Research Building was completed earlier this year. It houses the nation's first nuclear reactor for industrial research.

Plans call for the construction of two more buildings and the extension of an existing laboratory When completed in 1966, Armour Research Foundation will have one of the most complete industrial research centers in the world. Construction of the extension at the north end of the Metals Research Building is expected to be completed by late spring 1957. New research equipment, valued at approximately $175,000, will bring the total installation cost to. in excess of $750,000, according to Cousins. Eonff Distance TV SAN DIEGO.

Calif. AP Bill lives on Kansas pickediip Enid, on Channel 5 of his TV set. Two-thirds of Americans with homes valued between $10,000 and $25,000 d- some do-it-youraelf work. The names of Indiana University students who were on the Honors List because of high scholastic standing last semester were released today by Registrar Charles E. Harrell at Bloomington.

Along with their parents they will be honored at traditional Founders Day ceremonies next May on the Bloomington campus, when the" university marks its 137th birthday. A total of 1.592 students were on the Honors List for last semester, Harrell said, including all of the university, the I.U. centers in the various corners of the state. and the Medical Center, Law School Division and Normal College, American Gymnastic Union in Indianapolis. LAKE COl'NTY students on the HonorJ List include: Cedar LakeJoyce M.

Hodges, Marjorie G. Terrell and Steedly Young. Crown Point Doris V. Jones, Grace J. Mikuta.

Keith A. Patterson. Claire E. Phillips. Allen W.

Teagle and Mary Jo Tullis. East Chicago Dan Angel, Joseph S. Beres, James P. Comer, Emanuel N. Dragomcr, George H.

Edgar, Harvey Feigenbaum. Paul R. Good us. Raymond M. Hulas, Thomas V.

Hardaway, Patricia A. Illinois Plans Courses Television URBANA -CHAMPAIGN. III. Home-study television courses will be inaugurated next month by the University of Illinois. Three courses will be presented by the Division of University' Extension over the university's noncommercial station, WILL-TV, channel 12.

Subjects will be elementary German, elementary Spanish, and history of the United States to 1865. Each tekcast will be 30 minutes long. Courses will continue through the first semester. Each will offer regular university credit. Enrollment, class materials, and examinations will be handled by the correspondence course office.

For persons not seeking college credit, this office also will have viewers guides and outlines. Sheriff Slops Show At Drive-In Theater WACO, Tex. (AP)-Sherlff C. C. Maxey had an argument about shutting down film at a drive-in theater recently but he won hands down.

He said the film being shown had girls in "less than I have on my hand." He held up a hand bare except for a gold ring. "I told- the man to stop the film right then and therejust cut the thing off," Maxey related. "He told me he would have to call Dallas headquarters and get permission. I told him all the permission he needed was that I told him to cut, the machine off." The film was stopped immediately. "1 don't think we've got any censor board here," Maxey said.

"But I figure if they can't show something that's all right for kids they just won't show anything." Seek Applicant for Rotary Fellowship TUPELO, Miss. (UP) Recording star Elvis Presley's fifth grade teacher remembers him as a bare- foot boy who captivated his classmates with his guitar and mournful tunes. Mrs. J. C.

Grimes, recalls that Presley, just nine years ago, would sit alone on the steps of Lawhcn junior high school here and strum his guitar, ignoring the students who teased him. Now and then 'he'd sing in the school assembly programs. "One Bong he sang quite often was 'Old I can see him now, strumming the guitar and singing 'Old Shop' with so much feeling and emotion that almost everyone in the auditorium was crying before he finished," Mrs. Grimes said. Presley made good grades and Mrs.

Grimes said she "couldn't have asked for a better pupil." Presley, at the age of 12, moved to Memphis, but he'll return to Tupelo this fall for an appearance at the Mississippi-Alabama fair. northern part of Indiana. line for the receipt of applications is Nov. 15. Since the program was inaugurated in 1947 in memory of the founder of Rotary, Paul Harris, Rotary Foundation Fellowships -have been awarded to 827 young men and womenli ving in 61 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the islands of the Pacific, for study in 40 countries.

The one-year grants average $2,500 each and the total grants since 1947 have been in excess of $2,000,000. The fellowships are unique in that, with some 9,200 Rotary Clubs in 99 countries throughout the free world, the student is in direct contact with Rotarians and their families during this year away from home, no matter where he is studying. He attends their Ro- -tary meetings, visits in their homes' and places of business, and travels as much as possible' during his school holidays. In this way, he see at first hand how the people in his host country live and, through these close associations, he lays the essential foundations for increased international understanding; which is one of Rotary's principal objectives. 2 Applications for a year of study abroad on a Rotary Foundation Fellowship are now being taken by the Hammond Rotary Club, C.

Burt Monnett, president, said today. The fellowship includes all transportation, education and living expenses for the 1957-58 academic year. Students who are residents of Hammond should make their application to. Monnett at 34 State St. Candidates must be between 20 and 29 years of age.

They must have a college or university degree (or they nrust now be in their senior year), a record of high scholastic- Standing, and a thorough knowledge of the language of the country in which they propose to study. They must have' the ability to make friends easily, be vitally interested in world affairs, and possess an instinct for leadership. Rotary Fellowships are granted without regard to race, creed or citizenship. THE APPLICANT selected in Hammond will compete for the fellowship with applicants selected oy 33 other Rotary Clubs in the.

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